Democratic Congressman: 'Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Going To Be in Charge in a Few Weeks'
Kevin McCarthy is dealing with far-right congresswoman in quest for speakership
Far-right, conspiracy-minded Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) will soon have an outsized role in running the US House of Representatives as a result of a bargain struck with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on his way to try to collect the votes to become speaker when the new Congress convenes in January, a prominent Democratic congressman warned.
McCarthy is trying to lock up the necessary votes for speaker when Republicans retake the House majority in January.
However, Republicans will have a tiny, 9-seat majority with which to work. And complicating things for the California Republican, five fellow Republicans have pledged not to support McCarthy.
The result is that McCarthy is making deals wherever he can to try to reach the office of speaker, which he has coveted for years.
That includes with Greene, of Georgia, who has voiced support for the January 6, 2021, insurrection, the baseless and bizarre QAnon conspiracy theories and more.
“Joy, Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to be in charge in a few weeks because Kevin McCarthy struck a corrupt bargain with her so that he can be speaker and so he is going to allow under their tent somebody who has this fever dream of an armed insurrection that is successful against the Capitol,” Rep Eric Swalwell (D-Calif) said in an on-camera appearance on MSNBC host Joy Reid's program. “She didn’t say she was embarrassed or disappointed or disgusted by what happened at the U.S. Capitol, if anything she was embarrassed and disgusted that it failed and that she if she was one of the lieutenants would have ensured that it would have succeeded.
“But Kevin McCarthy — he cannot — [win the speakership] without her and so the fear here, the risk for our country, is that we are lurching into this era where violence will be preferred over voting because Republicans know that what they actually believe in is not popular, it doesn’t win elections at the state level, it didn’t earn them the Senate,” Swalwell added. “They had to cheat through redistricting which will be overturned in a few months to even narrowly win the House and so their entire philosophy is at risk unless they bring violence into the mix and that’s what the new Republican Party is going to be defined by is chaos and we will stand in the breach, the judiciary and oversight committees to defend what we all hold so dear.”
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